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Authors: eskapism, MarsApril

Simple History shows recent changes made within WordPress, directly on your dashboard or on a separate page.

The plugin works as a log/history/audit log/version history of all (most, anyway) events that occur in WordPress. For example:

• see what articles have been created, modified or deleted
• see what attachments have been uploaded, modified or deleted
• see what plugins that have been activated or deactivated
• search through the history/log to find the change/post/article you are looking for

There is also a RSS feed of changes available, so you can keep track of the changes made via your favorite RSS reader on your phone, on your iPad, or on your computer.

It’s a plugin that is good to have on websites where several people are involved in editing the content.

Example scenarios

Keep track of what other people are doing: "Has someone done anything today? Ah, Sarah uploaded the new press release and created an article for it. Great! Now I don't have to do that."

Or for debug purposes: "The site feels very slow since yesterday. Has anyone done anything special? ... Ah, Steven activated 'naughy-plugin-x', that must be it."

See it in action

See the plugin in action with this short screencast:

Add your own events to simple history

If you are a plugin developer and would like to add your own things/events to Simple History you can do that by calling the function simple_history_add like this:

<?php
# will return “Plugin your_plugin_name Edited”
simple_history_add("action=edited&object_type=plugin&object_name=your_plugin_name");
?>

<?php simple_history_add("action=repaired&object_type=starship&object_name=USS Enterprise"); ?>

Donation and more plugins

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